I'm the most misunderstood, misquoted person I know, honestly.

I have tried sex with both men and women. I found I liked it.

I find it an effort to keep up appearances.

My affections are easily swayed and I can be very unfaithful.

I just decided I wanted to become someone else... So I became someone else.

I was a nothing kid. Not particularly good. Not particularly bad.

I'd love to retouch my whole life.

Hell, have I been a hell-raiser!

Sometimes you have to let people down in order to get on, particularly in showbusiness.

Somehow I took whatever criticism there was very much to heart.

My sexuality has never been a problem to me but I think it has been for other people.

I wouldn't know how to handle serenity if somebody handed it to me on a plate.

It's marvellous to be popular, but foolish to think it will last.

I'm the most misunderstood, misquoted person I know, honestly.

A lot of people say I'm bent, and I've heard it so many times that I've almost learned to accept it.

I don't really care what people tell children - when you believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy, one more fib won't hurt. But I am infuriated by the growing notion, posited in some touchy-feely quarters, that all women are, or can be, beautiful.

Because 'Call The Midwife' is a gentle drama, not a documentary, it's not appropriate to portray Sister Monica Joan's condition in all its brutal reality.

I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing.

The man who worships mere wealth is a snob.

I like to tell stories through dancing and singing.

I'm involved with Recording Artists and Actors Against Drunk Driving. I'm also involved with most children's causes, because children can't help the environment they're in.

Apart from its famous healing properties, manuka has a strong, woody flavour.

The Super Bowl is Americana at its most kitsch and fun.

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

I remember an old Singer sewing machine at home that belonged to my grandmother. It had a pedal. My mom taught me how to use it when I was 12 years old. I used to find it so intriguing, how a flat piece of material could be made into an object that had so many uses.

Unified party control of the organs of government has proved no panacea.

We live unto Him, so committing our service to the Lord is the first and foremost priority of our lives. We can start with our reasonable service: prayer, studying, fasting, tithing, fellowshipping, and witnessing.

I am not a private person; you can ask those who hang out with me.

I think one thing that helped the sound change, it's a real subtle thing; it's just one switch on my bass, it has three positions, and I usually boost the mid-range frequency, I lowered the frequency that I boost, and that goes out to the sound system, too.

There are so many funny people and so many talented people, but the one thing nobody else has is my take on the world. So, when I'm developing my show, that's going to be the focus.

As commentators like the American psychologist Gary Marcus have noted, it's extremely difficult to teach a computer to recognise cats. And that's not for want of trying.

Until very recently, the heavenly bodies have been investigated only with reference to their position and their laws of motion, and a quarter of a century ago astronomy was little more than celestial topography.

African American women in particular have incredible buying power. Statistically, we go to the movies more than anyone. We have made Tyler Perry's career. His films open with $25 million almost consistently.

It wasn't really until the 10th or 11th grade when I started to play well, and football took the place of baseball, which was my love when I was five years old. I don't know what happened; baseball just got boring to me, I guess.

The successes of the LGBT civil rights movement and the more prominent role openly gay people are playing in the public eye has actually turned up the temperature in middle schools and high schools for queer kids.

I saw David Lynch's 'The Elephant Man' when I was 15. I was completely bowled over. I found it so beautiful, strange and mesmerizing that I went back to the cinema every night for a week to see it.

I mean Buckingham Palace has never hired a professional public relations outfit let alone a Madison Avenue type and they would throw up their hands in horror at the very idea.

Music has to be written while people are still excited about a particular melodic or rhythmic sequence. The idea doesn't come out the same if we're not really excited about it.

Frame in terms of what you want to have in the picture not about making a nice picture that anybody can do.